A gentle rumble ran under Ngan Huang’s feet as a rocket carrying her research—live, human muscle cells grown on scaffolds fixed on tiny chips—lifted off, climbed, and disappeared into the sky to the International Space Station National Laboratory. These chips would help Huang better understand muscle impairment, often seen in astronauts and older adults, and…
From the Silk Road to the Old Great North Road in Australia, explore how these ancient roads spread wealth and information across continents. From the Silk Road to the Old Great North Road in Australia, explore how these ancient roads spread wealth and information across continents. The Sciences All Articles | Discover Magazine
Using two optically-trapped glass nanoparticles, researchers observed a novel collective Non-Hermitian and non-linear dynamic driven by non-reciprocal interactions. This contribution expands traditional optical levitation with tweezer arrays by incorporating non-conservative interactions. Using two optically-trapped glass nanoparticles, researchers observed a novel collective Non-Hermitian and non-linear dynamic driven by non-reciprocal interactions. This contribution expands traditional optical levitation with…
The Fort Worth Zoo made wildlife conservation history, marking the “first-ever repeated” breeding of endangered gharial crocodiles. The Fort Worth Zoo made wildlife conservation history, marking the “first-ever repeated” breeding of endangered gharial crocodiles. Plants & Animals Ecology Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories
Research by Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) examining greenhouse gas emissions from the drying lake bed of Great Salt Lake, Utah, calculates that 4.1 million tons of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases were released in 2020. This research suggests that drying lake beds are an overlooked but potentially significant source of greenhouse gases, which may…
Consider a typical morning routine: coffee in hand, you peruse Twitter (now rebranded as X) to catch up on the news. Headlines appear among a flurry of tweets on everything from memes about political leaders to cultural Marxism, free speech, making America great again and draining the swamp. Consider a typical morning routine: coffee in hand,…
The dispute last year between the federal Treasury Board and the Public Service Alliance of Canada over remote work arrangements raised a lot of questions about a one-size-fits-all approach. Those questions need answering. The dispute last year between the federal Treasury Board and the Public Service Alliance of Canada over remote work arrangements raised a lot…
The human eye registers three colors of light: red, green and blue. But pigeons (and many other animal species) can also see a fourth color, ultraviolet. The human eye registers three colors of light: red, green and blue. But pigeons (and many other animal species) can also see a fourth color, ultraviolet. Plants & Animals Other Phys.org –…
Starting with the direct detection of gravitational waves in 2015, scientists have relied on a bit of a kludge: they can only detect those waves that match theoretical predictions, which is rather the opposite way that science is usually done. Starting with the direct detection of gravitational waves in 2015, scientists have relied on a bit…
A pair of paleobiologists at the University of Fribourg and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, in Switzerland, working with a colleague from Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, in Spain, has found evidence suggesting that humans were responsible for proboscidean species extinction rates increasing over the past 1.8 million years. A pair of paleobiologists at the University of…